Diedie Weng"Mosuo Song Journey" Trailer
Running Time: 37 min
Director, Videography & Editor: Diedie Weng
Producer: Diedie Weng, Carol Bliss
Year: 2007
Website: http://butterflybutterfly.info/mosuo_song_journey/
Synopsis:
In the summer of 2004, Chinese filmmaker, Diedie Weng, followed American scholar, Carol Bliss, and Mosuo writer, Lamu Gatusa, to collect traditional Mosuo folk songs for Carolâs research. From tourist Mosuo Villages to remote Mosuo mountain villages, âMosuo Song Journeyâ presents a personal journey resonating with the singing of different generations of Mosuo people in a transitional period of their life under the influence of tourism, pop culture and education.
Surrounded by mountains, between the border of Yunnan and Sichuan Province in Southwest China, the Mosuo people live on the banks of Lugu Lake. For over a thousand years, Mosuo people have kept a Matrilineal tradition, in which women head the household. Mosuo sisters and brothers live in the family organized by the bloodline of their mothers. Within this unique background, the Mosuo have been encouraged by the State to develop tourism since the early 1990s. As a result, Mosuo society has started opening to the world and attracting increasing worldwide attention as âA Kingdom of Goddessesâ from both tourists and scholars.
This movie is part of the collection: Community Video
Producer: Diedie Weng
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Mosuo; folk culture; folk song; cultural changes; tourism; China; Chinese ethnic music; Asia； Documentary; Music
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